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Helicopter flight

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Title Helicopter flight

Released 25/10/2012 11:54 am

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ESA - S. Corvaja

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A helicopter flew over the Galileo Test and Development Environment – GATE – in Berchtesgaden, Germany, to gather data on how Europe’s two satellite navigation systems – EGNOS and Galileo – will work together in future. The helicopter flew a variety of manoeuvres, from fast loops to mid-air hovering, to see how satnav signals were received in practice. The promising results from the 24-26 September testing are now being analysed.